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From Naval Architecture to Big Tech to MIT’s Corporation Chair
Corporation, says she immediately recognized how fortunate she was to have landed at the Institute. “My first ... invited me into the lab to see how the pictures were made. Everyone I met was so passionate and smart.” ... conferences. She notes how both her service and industry experience have led to her philosophy that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/naval-architecture-big-tech-mit%E2%80%99s-corporation-chair3 Questions: Energy studies at MIT and the next generation of energy leaders
by improving our understanding of how insurance prices affect land use, we can help governments to ... the hour or by the minute, how would people’s energy use respond to that? To answer this question ... MIT’s energy community, and how their work connects to energy today. Abigail Ostriker ’16, who majored ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-energy-studies-mit-and-next-generation-energy-leadersLincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student research program to tackle biothreats to national security
abilities to prioritize what is important in developing products that are both functional and easy to use ... allowing the end user to use the manifolds to dial in the optimal environmental parameters without the need ... Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Center on MIT campus. Photo courtesy of Lincoln Laboratory. The goal is to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lincoln-laboratory-and-national-strategic-research-institute-launch-student-researchSelf-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
automatically harvest and store energy which it uses to monitor the motor’s temperature. “This is ambient power ... harvest magnetic field energy, and can be applied to those that use other power sources, like vibrations ... or sunlight. It could be used to build networks of sensors for factories, warehouses, and commercial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-powered-sensor-automatically-harvests-magnetic-energyChanging lives with heart, humor, and engineering
much about the theoretical aspects of design as well as machining, and how to combine those two,” ... 7-year-old campers,” he continues. “It’s pretty admirable what they have to deal with and how resilient they ... Nick Schwartz likes to describe himself as “a nerd with a heart.” Before finals period at the end ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-lives-heart-humor-and-engineeringNick Schwartz
well as machining, and how to combine those two,” Schwartz says. In January 2017, the team won the ... companies and asked to work with them. One of those companies responded: Tri Alpha Energy. Schwartz worked ... admirable what they have to deal with and how resilient they are.” Schwartz spoke about his experiences at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzSea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries partner to invest $1M+ to support research for the co-existence of ocean energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities
Office, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, announces a research funding opportunity to improve ... understanding of offshore renewable energy interactions with fishing and coastal communities to optimize ocean ... co-use. This unique funding partnership will support objective, community-focused research on ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sea-grant-doe-noaa-fisheries-partner-invest-1m-support-research-co-existence-ocean-energyDrawn to big challenges, from GM to Caterpillar
a negotiated agreement’) was,” she recalls, “and how to get the people I was negotiating with to articulate ... strategy, about how to bring in elements from the technical end, and bring it all together,” she says. “I ... business sense; listening to all ideas is how businesses will continue to grow and thrive.” She’s also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drawn-big-challenges-gm-caterpillarFrom NASA to MIT to Formlabs
you ask for them.” This approach has served her well, from becoming a NASA intern at 15 to running ... MIT’s autonomous boat team Arcturus to entering a leadership position at 3D printing technology company ... to drive,” Chen says. “High school would end, the bell would ring, and I would put on my backpack and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nasa-mit-formlabsCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
now shown that they can use a new type of measurement to predict how drugs will affect cancer cells ... there is no way to predict, by genetic markers or other means, how a patient will respond to ... technique to predict how cancer drugs affect tumor cell growth. They showed last year that the mass ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsNo Drop to Spare
the use of sophisticated tools and technology, offers significant advantages – but existing technology ... a low-cost, solar-powered precision irrigation controller that optimizes energy use and water use. Design and ... solar-powered precision irrigation controller that optimizes both energy use and water use. MIT researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/no-drop-spareChanging the color of 3-D printed objects
changing the multicolored objects involves using ultraviolet light to activate desired colors and visible ... light to deactivate others. Specifically, the team uses an ultraviolet light to change the pixels on an ... using a more powerful light or adding more light-adaptable dye to the ink. They also found the colors to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-color-3-d-printed-objectsThree MIT seniors awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarships
a mechanical design intern at Tri Alpha Energy, a company that seeks to build a nuclear fusion reactor machine. ... incentives for minor league baseball players to use performance-enhancing drugs. Outside of her economics ... one or two years of graduate study in any field at a U.K. institution. Up to 40 top American students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-seniors-awarded-2018-marshall-scholarshipsWhere the wind blows
enough to make a significant difference? How much of a dent can these alternatives make in the ... needed is to put the pieces together in a way that works economically. But deciding just how to do so is ... no trivial matter. Sclavounos and his students have been working to optimize designs, using computer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
a technical level. How do you screen batteries when you take them out of the car to make sure they’re good ... enough to reuse? How do you pack together batteries from different cars in a way that you know that ... used a semiempirical model of battery degradation, trained using measured data, to predict capacity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteriesSun-powered desalination for villages in India
together, it pointed very strongly to electrodialysis” — which is not what is commonly used in developing ... India currently use individual, home-based filtration systems to treat their water, Wright says after ... could provide enough clean, palatable drinking water to supply the needs of a typical village. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaNano flashlight enables new applications of light
used light to identify a material by observing how that light interacts with the material. They do so ... designing the tiny light beam on a chip could also be used to create a variety of other nano flashlights ... a prototype. Importantly, they created the device using existing fabrication technologies familiar to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nano-flashlight-enables-new-applications-lightTalking Shop with Professor John Leonard
work on the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), answering the question of how to ... be a new way to think about mobility on-demand, where you use your cell phone to call for a vehicle ... that just shows up and then takes you where you need to go. Uber currently uses human drivers, but if ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-leonardA New Era in 3D Printing
“It takes a long time to prototype using traditional manufacturing methods,” explains Sachs. 3D ... enable the next generation of 3D printers that can be used in the factories of the future. For this to be ... for use in customized medical braces. Credit: Felice Frankel To work toward achieving this synergy, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingMaking a remarkable material even better
two.” To begin, Zhao turned to the radiative transport equation, which describes mathematically how the ... Using those results, it calculates how much of the incoming light passes directly through the sample and ... how much of it is scattered along the way and comes out diffuse. The next task was to validate the ...
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